<snip> Being a nub at life, liberty, and ruby, what is the best way to search it? Would it be to go and sum up the elements in every possible array (ie, [abc] => [a]. [b]. [c]. [ab]. [bc])? Because that seems like it would get very CPU consuming with larger arrays. aRi --------------------------------------------| If you're not living on the edge, then you're just wasting space.